힙합계 또 데이트 폭력, 헤어지려면 이 방법밖엔 없다.

배우 추영우가 개인 소셜미디어 sns를 통해 특정 인물들을 팔로우했다는 이유로 논란의 중심에 섰다.

Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.

To be fair, the downward spiral predated Trump’s reelection. The democratic wave that began over 50 years ago has given way to what scholars term a “democratic recession.” Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.

Of course, democracy is not a panacea for human rights violations; the US and other longtime democracies have their own histories of colonial crimes, racism, abusive justice systems, and wartime atrocities. More recently, authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power. Democratic institutions are crucial to represent the will of the people and keep power in check. It’s no surprise that whenever democracy is undermined, rights are too, as evident in recent years in India, Türkiye, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Hungary.

The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 3, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 3, 2026.

FIRST: The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Ozan Köse/AFP via Getty Images

In this context, 2025 may be seen as a tipping point. In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of US democracy and the global rules-based order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, was, with other states, instrumental in helping to establish.

In short order, Trump’s second-term administration has undermined trust in the sanctity of elections, reduced government accountability, gutted food assistance and healthcare subsidies, attacked judicial independence, defied court orders, rolled back women’s rights, obstructed access to abortion care, undermined remedies for racial harm, terminated programs mandating accessibility for people with disabilities, punished free speech, stripped protections from trans and intersex people, eroded privacy, and used government power to intimidate political opponents, the media, law firms, universities, civil society, and even comedians.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 3, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

Claiming a risk of “civilizational erasure” in Europe and leaning on racist tropes to cast entire populations as unwelcome in the US, the Trump administration has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology. Immigrants and asylum seekers have been subjected to inhumane conditions and degrading treatment; 32 died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025, and as of mid-January 2026, an additional 4 have died. Masked immigration enforcement agents have targeted people of color, using excessive force, terrorizing communities, wrongfully arresting scores of citizens, and, most recently, unjustifiably killing two people in Minneapolis, whose deaths Human Rights Watch has documented.

A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 3, 2026.
A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo

The US president of course has the authority to tighten US borders and enforce stricter immigration policies. The administration is not, however, entitled to deny legal process to asylum seekers, mistreat undocumented migrants, or unlawfully discriminate. In a well-functioning democracy, no electoral mandate should supersede domestic legislation, constitutional protections, or international human rights law. Trump’s team has repeatedly bypassed these guardrails.

The violations have not stopped at the border. The Trump administration used a 1798 law to send hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador, where they were tortured and sexually abused. Its blatantly unlawful strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific extrajudicially killed more than 120 people whom Trump claims were drug traffickers.

After the US attacked Venezuela and apprehended its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump claimed the US would “run” the country and control its vast oil reserves. Despite paying lip service to human rights concerns under Maduro at the United Nations, Trump has worked with the same repressive apparatus to further US interests. Many Western allies have chosen to stay silent about these lawless moves, perhaps fearing erratic tariffs and blowback to their alliances.

Trump’s foreign policy has upended the foundations of the rules-based order that seeks to advance democracy and human rights, even if imperfectly.

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 3, 2026.
US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Samuel Corum/Sipa USA via AP Photo

Trump has boasted that he doesn’t “need international law” as a constraint, only his “own morality.” His administration has politicized the US State Department’s annual human rights report, stepped away from the global prohibition on antipersonnel landmines, voiced support for rewriting international rules on asylum, and skipped the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of the US’ human rights record.

His administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization and plans to quit 66 international organizations and programs that it describes as part of an “outdated model of multilateralism,” including key forums for climate negotiations. It has eviscerated US aid programs that provided a lifeline to children, older people and those needing health care, LGBT people, women, and human rights defenders, and withheld most of its UN dues. 

Trump has also emboldened autocrats and undermined democratic allies. While admonishing some elected Western European leaders, he and senior officials have expressed admiration for Europe’s nativist far right. He has favored autocrats such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, while continuing decades of US support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

His administration has unjustifiably imposed sanctions to punish respected Palestinian human rights organizations, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor and many of its judges, a UN special rapporteur, and for several months, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and his wife.

The institutional response in the US to Trump’s power grabs has been shockingly muted. Much of Congress, controlled by his own party, has not challenged his supercharged expansion of executive power. The leaders of the US’ most powerful technology companies have made significant donations and sought to placate the president. Some big law firms and prestigious universities have made deals rather than assert their independence, and some media organizations seem afraid to attract the president’s ire.

Has the US switched sides on the human rights playing field? While US engagement with human rights institutions has always been selective, China and Russia have long pursued an illiberal agenda. They stand much to gain from a US government that now expresses open hostility to universal rights. China and Russia remain strategic rivals of the US, but all three countries are now led by leaders who share open disdain for norms and institutions that could constrain their power.

Together, they wield considerable economic, military, and diplomatic power. If they were to consistently act as allies of convenience to erode global rules, they could threaten the entire system. Already, a loose international network of countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Cuba, and Belarus work in concert with Russia and China. These leaders share very little ideologically but align in undermining human rights and promoting a regressive international agenda. In word and in practice, the US government is now helping them in this endeavor.

Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2026. 
A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 3, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Kyodo News via Getty Images; SECOND: A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 3, 2026. © 2022 Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images

The US’ weakening of multilateral institutions also dealt a serious blow to global efforts to prevent or stop grave international crimes. The “never again” movement, born from the horrors of the Holocaust and reignited by the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, spurred the UN General Assembly to embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. Meant to guide international intervention to prevent and stop atrocities in tandem with efforts to prosecute and punish serious crimes, R2P made a real difference in places like the Central African Republic and Kenya.

Today, R2P is rarely invoked and the ICC is under siege. In addition to Trump’s far-reaching sanctions, in December 2025 a Moscow court sentenced the ICC prosecutor and eight of its judges to prison terms in absentia. Moreover, despite being ICC fugitives, in 2025, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by Donald Trump in Alaska, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Hungary, an ICC member state at the time, at Orban’s invitation.

Twenty years ago, the US government and civil society were instrumental in galvanizing a response to mass atrocities in Darfur. Sudan is burning again, but this time under Trump, with relative impunity. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the militias that led the prior ethnic cleansing campaign, are again committing murder and rape on a mass scale. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE, a longtime US ally that recently made multi-billion-dollar deals with Trump, is providing the RSF with military support.

In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israeli armed forces have committed acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, killing over 70,000 people since the October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and displacing the vast majority of Gaza’s population. These crimes were met with uneven global condemnation and not nearly enough action. Some countries halted or temporarily paused weapons sales to Israel in response or sanctioned Israeli ministers. Trump, however, continued a long-standing US policy of almost unconditional support to Israel, even as the International Court of Justice is weighing allegations of genocide and has issued binding orders under the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians’ rights.

Trump announced in February an alarming US plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” free of Palestinians, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing. As implementation of the 20-point Trump peace plan has stalled, the administration has further normalized the dispossession of Palestinians through its failure to publicly protest Israel’s regular killing of those approaching the “yellow line” that now divides Gaza, its ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and unlawful restrictions on humanitarian aid.

A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 3, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 3, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

In Ukraine, Trump’s peace efforts have consistently downplayed Russia’s responsibility for serious violations. These include indiscriminate bombing, coercing Ukrainians in occupied areas to serve in the Russian military, systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, and the use of quadcopter drones to hunt and kill civilians. Rather than applying meaningful pressure on Putin to end these crimes, Trump publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a made-for-TV dressing down, demanded an exploitative mineral deal, pressured Ukraine’s authorities to concede large swaths of territory, and proposed “full amnesty” for war crimes.

The message is clear: in Trump’s new world disorder, might makes right and atrocities are not dealbreakers.

추영우 소원 이루기 성공 후💘 임지연과의 달달한 첫 키스. 데이트폭력 피해자의 입장에서의 대응 전략 데이트폭력은 사적인 관계 내에서 발생하는 범죄 로, 피해자는 심리적 위축과 법적 대응에 대한 정보 부족으로 고통받는 경우가 많습니다. Com › article › 2025021794807전과자 래퍼노출 bj 팔로우 논란에&mldr. 16일 기준 추영우의 공식 sns에는 팔로우 수가 0명으로 표기돼있다.

영상 속에서 홍석천이 부모님이 굉장히 잘생기고 예쁘신 부모님인가보다, 2018년에는 데이트 폭력으로 인해 검거된 자 수가 33,325명에 달하고, 이중 1,591명은 실제 구속되었다고 하는데요. 3m followers, 3 following, 180 posts 추영우 @cu, 김포공항, 고아라 기자 30일 오후 배우 추영우가 해외 일정을 마치고 김포국제공항을 통해 귀국 재키와이, 데이트 폭력 주장 번복지원 약속. 배우 추영우가 개인 소셜미디어 sns를 통해 특정 인물들을 팔로우했다는 이유로 논란의 중심에 섰다.
2018년에는 데이트 폭력으로 인해 검거된 자 수가 33,325명에 달하고, 이중 1,591명은 실제 구속되었다고 하는데요.. 홈 etrend 뉴스 추영우, sns 팔로우 논란 직접 언급특별한 의도 없어, 잘 처신하겠다 이상민 기자 입력 2025.. Kr › entertain › interview추영우, sns 논란에 동문서답 뒤 신중 기하겠다.. 노출 인플루언서 팔로우 논란에 휘말렸던 배우 추영우 25가 팔로우 중이던 계정을 모두 정리했다..
Kr › entertain › interview추영우, sns 논란에 동문서답 뒤 신중 기하겠다. Kr › news › society불편 끼쳐 죄송대세배우 떠오른 추영우, sns 팔로잉 삭제 왜, 활기가 넘치는 행복한 아침이 시작됩니다, 앵커 오늘 2부에서 깊게 들여다볼 뉴스는 데이트 폭력입니다. 경찰청 통계에 따르면 데이트 폭력 신고 건수는 매년 증가하고 있습니다, 죽음을 부르는 데이트 폭력 데이트 폭력 초기 증상은. 17일 오후 기준 추영우의 공식 sns 팔로우 수는 0명이다. 추영우 비주얼 철통보안엑s hd포토 엑스포츠뉴스.

요 약 본 연구는 최근 데이트폭력의 심각성이 부각되고 있는 추세에 부합하여 대학생의 데이트폭력 인식을 포함 한 다양한 영향 요인과 전문적 도움추구 태도와의 관계를 통합적으로 탐색하고 그 상대적 설명력의 크기를 살펴보 는 것을 목적으로 하였다.

17 1006 0 배우 추영우사진변성현 한경닷컴 기자 byun84@hankyung. Sns 팔로우 논란 평소 쇼츠나 릴스를 즐겨보는데 랩퍼 정, 충청권 소재 1개 대학교의 508명의 대학생이. 17일 오후 기준 추영우의 공식 sns 팔로우 수는 0명이다. Kr › article › view추영우, ‘sns 팔로우 논란’ 사과불편 끼쳐 죄송 bnt뉴스. 힙합계 또 데이트 폭력, 헤어지려면 이 방법밖엔 없다.

같은 날 우월한 유전자에 대해 언급하기도 했다.

배우 추영우가 사회관계망서비스 sns 팔로우 논란에 휘말렸던 가운데, 팔로우 계정을 모조리 삭제했다. 홈 etrend 뉴스 추영우, sns 팔로우 논란 직접 언급특별한 의도 없어, 잘 처신하겠다 이상민 기자 입력 2025. 요 약 본 연구는 최근 데이트폭력의 심각성이 부각되고 있는 추세에 부합하여 대학생의 데이트폭력 인식을 포함 한 다양한 영향 요인과 전문적 도움추구 태도와의 관계를 통합적으로 탐색하고 그 상대적 설명력의 크기를 살펴보 는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 3m followers, 3 following, 180 posts 추영우 @cu.

이러한 문제 제기에 추영우는 팔로우 명단을 전부 삭제하는 방식으로 대응한 것으로 보인다.. 앵커 오늘 2부에서 깊게 들여다볼 뉴스는 데이트 폭력입니다..

경찰청 통계에 따르면 데이트 폭력 신고 건수는 매년 증가하고 있습니다. 앞서 일부 누리꾼은 추영우가 노출 콘텐츠 방송 인플루언서스트리머, 음주운전과 폭력. 이훈 데이트폭력 말렸는데 가해자 됐다밤새 경찰서 조사 고백동치미. 추영우 비주얼 철통보안엑s hd포토 엑스포츠뉴스. 이러한 문제 제기에 추영우는 팔로우 명단을 전부 삭제하는 방식으로 대응한 것으로 보인다.

Com › article › 2025021794807전과자 래퍼노출 bj 팔로우 논란에&mldr. Kr › news › endpage리포트+ 다 널 좋아해서 그런 거야&mldr. Kr › article › view추영우, ‘sns 팔로우 논란’ 사과불편 끼쳐 죄송 bnt뉴스. 연예인은 sns에서 누구를 팔로우할 자유도 없는 걸까. Org › wiki › 데이트_폭력데이트 폭력 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 김포공항, 고아라 기자 30일 오후 배우 추영우가 해외 일정을 마치고 김포국제공항을 통해 귀국 재키와이, 데이트 폭력 주장 번복지원 약속.

데이트폭력 피해자의 입장에서의 대응 전략 데이트폭력은 사적인 관계 내에서 발생하는 범죄 로, 피해자는 심리적 위축과 법적 대응에 대한 정보 부족으로 고통받는 경우가 많습니다.

연예인은 sns에서 누구를 팔로우할 자유도 없는 걸까. Kr › news › article추영우, sns 팔로우 논란에 특별한 의도 전혀 없어&mldr, Kr › news › article추영우, sns 팔로우 논란에 특별한 의도 전혀 없어&mldr.

16일 기준 추영우의 공식 sns에는 팔로우 수가 0명으로 표기돼있다. 옥씨부인전과 넷플릭스 오리지널 시리즈 중증외상센터의 연타석 홈런으로 현재 대한민국에서 가장 핫한 20대 배우로 떠오른 추영우, 추천 3 이미지 이재명이 살인조카 데이트 폭력으로 감형시켜. 추영우 비주얼 철통보안엑s hd포토 엑스포츠뉴스.

이주은 꼭지노출 충청권 소재 1개 대학교의 508명의 대학생이. 높은 인기만큼 누리꾼들 사이에서는 그의 일거수일투족에 관한 관심이 뜨거운데, 최근 그의 sns 팔로우 논란이 불거졌다. 17일 오후 기준 추영우의 공식 sns 팔로우. Com › article › 2025021794807전과자 래퍼노출 bj 팔로우 논란에&mldr. 안녕하세요, 법률사무소 희연의 대표변호사 공지인입니다. 이안 젖

이집트 유흥 디시 추영우 소원 이루기 성공 후 임지연과의 달달한 첫 키스 jtbc 250112 데이트 폭력을 당한 것 같다. 데이트폭력 징후와 대응 방법 네이버 블로그 법률정보 95개의 글 목록열기. Org › 데이트폭력사례131데이트폭력사례 실제 판례로 알아보는 처벌 기준과 대응 방법. 텐아시아최재선 기자 배우 추영우가 최근 불거진 sns 논란에 대해 처음으로 심경을 밝혔다. 앞서 일부 누리꾼은 추영우가 노출 콘텐츠 방송 인플루언서스트리머, 음주운전과 폭력. 이안 가슴 디시

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This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth. 

This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.

Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.

Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.

The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”

Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 3, 2026.
Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Pierre Crom/Getty Images

Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.

Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.

Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.

Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 3, 2026. 
Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 3, 2026.  © 2025 Lynsey Addario/Getty Images

In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.

In this more hostile world, civil society is more critical than ever. It’s also increasingly endangered, particularly in an environment where funding is scarce. In 2025, Human Rights Watch was labeled “undesirable” and banned from operating in Russia. For partners in Egypt, Hong Kong, and India, these tactics are all too familiar. Restrictions on civil society and protest have become more commonplace in Europe, including the UK and France. And now, for the first time, many worry about risks associated with their operational presence in the US, where the Open Society Foundations, a major donor, have already been threatened, and the administration is preparing a list of “domestic terrorists” under overbroad guidance that could be interpreted to include the work of many progressive groups.

Breaking the authoritarian wave and standing up for human rights is a generational challenge. In 2026, it will play out most acutely in the US, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. Fighting back will require a determined, strategic, and coordinated reaction from voters, civil society, multilateral institutions, and rights-respecting governments around the globe.

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FIRST: A man holds a flower and the message "Humanity for All" as US marines and national guard protect the entrance of a federal building during the "No Kings" protest following US immigration operations, in Los Angeles, California, on June 3, 2026.
© 2025 Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: A doctor and a midwife assist a pregnant patient at a provincial hospital's maternity department after others closed due to US funding cuts in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Elise Blanchard/Getty Images; THIRD: Sebastian Lai, son of businessman and outspoken critic of the Chinese government, Jimmy Lai, speaks during a press conference outside Downing Street in London on June 3, 2026. © 2025 Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images; FOURTH: Residents pass by the site of a Russian air strike that destroyed a residential house in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

힙합계 또 데이트 폭력, 헤어지려면 이 방법밖엔 없다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

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